{"id":9217,"date":"2024-11-25T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2024-11-25T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:20:19","slug":"back-to-the-gigging-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/back-to-the-gigging-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Gigging Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>After a nearly decade-long absence from gigging books and stories and causes, I will return to the life in early December with a presentation of <em>The Old Crow Book Club<\/em> and my thoughts about Oregon&#8217;s crisis of homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not counting my 25 or so writing workshops and one eulogy held in a fire hall. This is a story and a book and I&#8217;m getting back out there because someone asked me\u2014and then actually followed through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen people are expected. Average age 75. Socialists and peaceniks. A church basement. Yuban or Folgers coffee. No pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have never gigged this story or this book. I will use no notes or AV. As of this writing, I have no idea how to proceed with the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps open with the intro from the book? Or eschew readings altogether and just tell a story and see where it goes from there? Maybe I start with a ten-minute talk and open it up to questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sponsors of the event say I have 50 minutes. Fifty minutes! That&#8217;s way too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I plan on giving away The Old Crow Book Club to everyone in attendance. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve already done with most of the 2000-copy press run. And distributing that book (almost exclusively in free street libraries) has led to some of my most astonishing experiences as a writer and publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to gigging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a nearly decade-long absence from gigging books and stories and causes, I will return to the life in early December with a presentation of The Old Crow Book Club and my thoughts about Oregon&#8217;s crisis of homelessness. I&#8217;m not counting my 25 or so writing workshops and one eulogy held in a fire hall. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9220,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions\/9220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}